Show Full Directory Path in Mac OS X Finder Window Title Bars
Dec 2, 2007 - 31 Comments
The geekier amongst us and those familiar with Unix should really like this trick. You can have Mac OS X display the full directory path in the Finder window title bar by issuing a simple command from the Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Then you’ll want to kill the Finder for changes to take effect:
killall Finder
To disable the full path title bars and revert back to the default, simply repeat the command with NO instead of YES as the operator:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool NO
killall Finder
This works with any version of OS X beyond 10.5, including 10.6, 10.7, and (apparently) 10.8.
Sadly, it has no effect in 10.4.
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Thanks*10^6!
This worked, but caused an intended side effect.
My iTunes library lives on an external drive connected to an Airport Extreme.
With full-directory paths displayed, the external drive could be seen but would not fully mount. iTunes would not work, and I could not see the directories on that external drive from Finder.
Thankfully the author included instructions for how to reverse the process. Things went back to normal immediately.
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You just made my day
Im an newly Mac convert and I missed this from the Windows world.
Um, if you want to see the full path, why don’t you just enable it in the view menu?
now that is cool
But is there a way to edit that path live in the title bar????
Nice. Thanks a lot it saves me time.
Not working in 10.4
Nice tip, but I am missing one thing in my title bar, the share name.
I connect to a lot of Linux boxes which has the same directory setup and share names, and without the share name in the title, it is not easy to identify which server I am on.
Any ideas?
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It does put something in the title bar but the path doesn’t seem to change as I navigate in finder.
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works on 10.5.7
works on 10.5.7
this did not work on my laptop
would this be because i dont have the ability to read/write on some folders ?
Less than great…. (osx 10.6.3)
Dont take me wrong: it is good to know where you are when moving between those windows.
My rant is against “the apple” that makes certain things so not user-friendly (so much for usability)…
This option should be available right away by default… and and have an easy “copy path to clipboard” …yeah, you can drop the file or folder somewhere and it displays the path but hey, I’m keyboard oriented, so what ?
Works beautifully. @Alex: it took me one hit to find it, that’s user friendly enough for a keyboard oriented user.
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Thanks! No finder restart required for this to take effect. OS X 10.6.5
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Just to tell you it also works in 10.7 (aka Lion)
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Great. Works well. Will also note about iTunes when using Airport also from the comment/feedback.
But I want to be able to paste in a directory and go there too!